Audubon County Republican. [volume] (Audubon, Audubon Co., Iowa) 1885-1894, 1887-01-13
OF A DREAM.
Tho Death OF an Englishman That Was Revealed
In a Vision.

Tho Death OF an Englishman That Was Revealed
In a Vision.
London Tid-Bits.
was out walking with my friend,
Henry Wilson, when, turning sudden.
ly to me, he said.
"Eastes, do you believe in dreams?
at depends upon what you mean
by believing in Dreams" answered.
believe that people have dreams,
but don't believe, as some say, that
one can tell the future by dreams.
Some say that dreams 60 by con-
traries, but l don't believe that either.
don't think dreams have anything
to do with what is going to happen"
~ hope you are right" he said, earn
estly, "for / had horrible dream, or
rather nightmare, last night, dreamed
that should die to-day"
"Well," l said, II hope you don't
believe that"
And we walked on in silence for some
time, but Wilson began again:
II should not have paid any atten-
ton to my dream last night, only 1
dreamed it three times, and each time
the dream was more vivid than be.
fore"
81 believe in cause and effect" an
swered. perhaps you took an indi-
gestible supper last night"
Wilson did not seem to appreciate
having supper mentioned as the cause
of his bad night, and so did not deign
to take any notice OF my last remark.
Well, we walked on. Other topics
were discussed, and we both seemed
to have forgotten all about Wilson's
dream of the night before.
After we had walked on for
some distance we came to town, in
which lived some people whom WANT
ed to call on. They were old friends
of the family, and quite unknown to
Henry Wilson so ! said to him:
"Wilson, l have to call on some
friends in this town; would you like
to come with me or would you rather
wait for me?"
ooh, how long will you be?" he asked.
at is some little distance to my
friends house." ! replied, 81 don't
L
hour and half"
T'll tell you what I'll do. I'll take
a boat and go on the river" he said,
land I'll be here again in an hour and
a half, and then we will walk back to-
gether."
The river flowed through the town,
and Wilson proposed rowing away
from the town.
Every well" returned, and l set off
to my friends.
l had seen my friends and was re-
turning to the place at which we agreed
to meet, when saw that the meeting
place was surrounded by small
crowd of people. AS approached 1
wondered what could be the matter;
sure y it could not be anything con-
nected with Wilson's dream. l put
that thought out of my mind in an in
slant as being absurd. thought it
was rather bother that this crowd
should have assembled around the
particular spot at which we had
agreed to meet.
| asked what the matter was. The
old man who let's out the boats told
me what 1T meant. He said: "There's
gentleman drowned"
"Where was he drowned" | asked.
"He was drowned there" he said,
pointing to a rather dangerous part
of the river. ale was found only ten
minutes ago"
"Where is he now" l inquired.
"He is lying there" he said.
AS knew that Wilson had gone out
boating, and as somebody had been
found dead IN that part OF the river in
which he was boating, could not re-
press a shudder at the thought OF who
the poor gentleman lying dead in the
boat-house could be. went into the
boat-house and saw the body. 1t
was the body of my friend, Henry
Wilson.
| have simply stated the facts. lido
not say that Wilson's dream was @
foreshadowjng OF the death which was
to meet him during the day, but l do
say that if his dreams did not foretell
his death, it is the most extraordf
nary coincidence that has ever come
within my experience.